UK Insolvency Notices — London Gazette Monitor

Monitor official UK insolvency notices from The Gazette — the Crown's official journal of public record (London, Edinburgh & Belfast editions). Every corporate insolvency event in the UK is legally required to be published here, and this actor gives you a clean, structured feed of it.

What you can track

Distress signals — the default set:

Code	Notice type	Why it matters
2450	Petitions to Wind Up (Companies)	A creditor has asked the court to close the company — the earliest public distress signal
2452	Winding-Up Orders	The court has ordered liquidation
2441	Resolutions for Winding Up	Shareholders have voted to liquidate (creditors' voluntary)
2443	Appointment of Liquidators	Insolvency practitioner appointed (creditors' voluntary)
2410	Appointment of Administrators	Company entering administration

Other codes worth adding:

Code	Notice type
2442	Meetings of Creditors
2446	Notices to Creditors
2445	Final Meetings
2451 / 2453	Petitions / Winding-Up Orders — partnerships
2421	Appointment of Administrative Receivers
2903	Deceased Estates (not insolvency — probate research)

Not distress — solvent wind-ups. Codes 2431 and 2432 are members' voluntary liquidations: profitable companies being closed deliberately, usually for tax reasons. They are deliberately excluded from the default so they don't pollute a distress feed. Add them only if you want solvent wind-ups too.

Leave the notice types empty to fetch every Gazette notice type.

Filters

The actor exposes the same filters as The Gazette's own notice search.

Filter	What it does
Notice Type Codes	Individual 4-digit codes, e.g. 2410, 2443
Notice Category Codes	Whole categories: 24 = all Corporate Insolvency, 25 = all Personal Insolvency, 26 = Companies Regulation, 29 = Personal Legal. Also accepts the website's own G-codes (see below)
Published From / To, Days Back	Publication date window
Search Text	Free text across the notice — company name, town, keyword
Locations	Up to 10 postcodes or place names, each matched within a radius you set
Local Authorities	Named councils, e.g. Manchester, City of London
Gazette Edition	London (England & Wales), Edinburgh (Scotland), Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Issue Numbers	Specific issues
Sort order	Newest or oldest first

Two things to know about how The Gazette combines them:

• Notice codes and category codes are OR'd, not AND'd. Setting both widens the result set instead of narrowing it — use one or the other. The actor logs a warning if you set both.
• Locations are OR'd with each other, and locations and local authorities share a budget of 10 slots in total.

Everything else is AND'd as you would expect: notice type and date window and edition.

Mirroring the Gazette's own search screen

Notice Category Codes also accepts the G… codes behind the checkboxes on thegazette.co.uk/insolvency/notice. Tick the boxes you want there, then copy the categorycode values out of the resulting URL. That is the most reliable way to reproduce a filter set exactly, because a single checkbox label can cover several notice codes.

Filter by code, never by the notice's name. Three separate notice types are all called Appointment of Liquidators, and they mean very different things:

Code	Section	Distress?
2443	Creditors' voluntary liquidation	Yes
2454	Liquidation by the Court	Yes
2432	Members' voluntary liquidation	No — the company is solvent

Administration Orders is likewise both 2411 (corporate) and 2505 (personal, county court) — and the second one's name comes back singular, Administration Order. Matching on names quietly mixes solvent wind-ups into a distress feed and drops rows to plural-vs-singular mismatches; codes don't.

Personal insolvency

Set Notice Category Codes to 25 for personal insolvency, or pick individual codes — 2503 Bankruptcy Orders, 2517 Sequestrations (Scotland), 2509 Notices of Intended Dividends. These notices are about a person rather than a company, and add their own fields: personName, personAddress, personDateOfBirth, personStatus, personDetails (which usually carries the occupation), bankruptcyOrderDate, bankruptcyOrderTime and typeOfPetition (debtor's or creditor's petition). The court, case number and appointed trustee or Official Receiver come through in the usual fields.

Who uses this data

• Credit control & finance teams — early warning when a customer or supplier starts failing; a winding-up petition often appears weeks before anything shows on credit files
• Debt recovery & insolvency practitioners — new cases as they publish
• Asset & stock buyers — companies entering liquidation need to dispose of assets fast
• Competitors & recruiters — a failing company's customers and staff are in play
• Risk & compliance platforms — structured insolvency events to feed your models

What you get

Every record carries the complete notice text — not a preview. The actor reads each notice's official machine-readable record and parses the detail out of it.

Core fields

Field	Example
title	ZION CARE SERVICES LIMITED
noticeType	Petitions to Wind Up (Companies)
noticeCode	2450
publishedDate	2026-07-28T13:10:24
noticeText	The full official notice text, complete
noticeUrl	Direct link to the official notice
noticeId / noticeNumber	https://www.thegazette.co.uk/id/notice/5181677 / 5181677
status / updatedDate / author	published / 2026-07-28T12:10:24Z / tso
contentPreview	The short feed snippet (kept for backwards compatibility)
latitude / longitude	Geo-point where provided

Structured detail parsed from the notice

Field	Example
companyName / companyNumber	ZION CARE SERVICES LIMITED / 12382979
partnershipName	For insolvent-partnership notices
personName / personAddress	Personal insolvency: the bankrupt or debtor
personDateOfBirth / personStatus	1980-04-19 / In bankruptcy
personDetails	Full descriptor, usually including occupation
bankruptcyOrderDate / bankruptcyOrderTime	2026-08-10 / 07:38
typeOfPetition	Debtor's or Creditor's
companyRegisteredOffice	L3a 9 Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton, WV1 4DJ
principalTradingAddress	Where the notice states one
tradingAs / natureOfBusiness	Development of building projects
courtName / courtDistrict / caseNumber	Business & Property Courts in Manchester / Insolvency and Companies list (Chd.) / CR-2026-MAN-000801
petitionerName / petitionerAddress	FEDERAL CAPITAL LIMITED
petitionDate	2026-05-26
hearingDate / hearingTime / hearingAddress	2026-08-18 / 10:00:00 / Business and Property Courts of Manchester
meetingDate / meetingTime / meetingAddress	For creditor-meeting notices
appointmentDate / typeOfLiquidation	2026-07-23 / Creditors' Voluntary
resolutionDate / dateSigned	Where the notice states them
companyStatus	e.g. Registered Company
practitioners	Array of office holders: name, firm, office holder number, email, phone, address
practitionerNames / practitionerFirms	Flat, CSV-friendly versions of the above
contactEmails / contactPhones	Every email and phone in the notice
legislation	INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
detailFetched	true when the full record was retrieved

Fields are only populated where the notice actually states them — a liquidator appointment has no hearing date, a Scottish petition is laid out differently from an English one. noticeText is always the complete text regardless of type.

Set Fetch full notice text & details to off for a faster, cheaper run that returns only the feed-level fields and contentPreview.

Turn on Also include notice HTML to additionally get noticeHtml, the notice body with its original markup (useful for preserving paragraphs and tables).

Full-notice fetch concurrency controls how many notices are fetched in parallel (default 5). Raise it to speed up big runs; keep it modest to stay polite to The Gazette's free service.

Typical usage

• Weekly distress monitor: keep the default notice types, set daysBack to 7, and schedule weekly
• Watch a specific company or town: set searchText
• One region only: set a postcode or town with a radius, or pick local authorities
• Everything corporate, nothing else: clear the notice types and set category code 24
• Historical research: set explicit publishedFrom / publishedTo dates — the archive goes back to the 1990s. Pre-digital notices still give you the full noticeText, but they predate the structured markup, so the individual fields (company number, court, hearing date) come back empty — the detail is in the text
• Contactable leads: contactEmails, contactPhones and practitioners give you the office holder or solicitor handling each case

No API key, no login — The Gazette's data service is free and official.

Export & integrations

Results land in an Apify dataset — export CSV, Excel, JSON, or connect Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack, and webhooks via Apify integrations.

Data source & licence

Data comes from The Gazette's official data service and is available under the Open Government Licence. This actor is not affiliated with The Gazette or TSO. Notices are public record by law.

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